Renovation Nation Volume 3, Ep. 24 “Baltimore, MD: Staw Bale Garage”
Hosted by home building expert Steve Thomas, Renovation Nation explores the latest in green home building techniques. In this episode, Steve came to Baltimore to help Greenbuilders, Inc. build a garage for a local Baltimore family using the all-natural insulator…straw!
- Runtime: 17 minutes
- Original air date: January 21, 2010
- Network: Planet Green
If you want to make your own solar power to capture the energy for heating its easy to do if you can find a solar collector, which is anything that attracts the heat from the sun in a concentrated amount, such as glass or clear plastic. Getting into your car that has sat out in the hot sun all day long can be extremely hot and you have to roll down your windows to cool it off inside. That is because the glass has attracted the sun and the objects in your car, including your seats, have trapped the heat not allowing it to escape. When you roll your windows down you are allowing the heat to escape causing your car to cool down. The same thing is true about greenhouses. The glass or clear plastic can attract the sun and not allow it to escape causing the greenhouse to maintain the heat for the plants to grow effectively.
Very good point, Hulda. Glass allows radiant heat to pass through — that’s the sun’s heat, but does not allow warm air to escape. That’s the greenhouse effect, which we are now seeing in our atmosphere. Good to hear from you.
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Dear Pierre,
Very true. Defining green is a continuing challenge and yet a necessity if we are to work and not simply ponder. Love is also an ambiguous term with many uses, not all of them beneficial. But, we cannot live good lives without love in all its mystery. Thank you for writing.